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Tharangattu N. Narayanan is affiliated with the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in India. Their research primarily lies within the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with significant contributions in subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Biomedical Engineering, and Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics.

Their work covers several main topics, including:

  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • MXene and MAX Phase Materials

Narayanan has co-authored many papers with frequent collaborators such as Rahul Sharma, Carola Schulzke, Cem B. Yildiz, Anukul Jana, and Benedict J. Elvers. These collaborations reflect ongoing research networks across different material science disciplines.

The scientist has published in a range of venues, including:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Small

Among their recent scientific papers are:

  • Photo Rechargeable Li-Ion Batteries Using Nanorod Heterostructure Electrodes, 2021, Small
  • Tailoring the Interfacial Water Structure by Electrolyte Engineering for Selective Electrocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide, 2023, ACS Catalysis
  • Dynamic mechanical analysis in materials science: The Novice's Tale, 2020, Oxford Open Materials Science
  • Spectroscopic correlation of chalcogen defects in atomically thin MoS2(1−x)Se2x alloys, 2020, Journal of Physics Materials
  • Photo-Rechargeable Li-Ion Batteries using TiS2 Cathode, 2023, Small

Their research contributes to understanding battery materials and renewable energy technologies, especially in relation to lithium-ion battery advancements. They also explore electrocatalytic processes and structural analysis techniques relevant to material chemistry and engineering applications.

Best Publications

  • Three-dimensionally bonded spongy graphene material with super compressive elasticity and near-zero Poisson’s ratio

    Yingpeng Wu;Ningbo Yi;Lu Huang;Tengfei Zhang

  • Covalently bonded three-dimensional carbon nanotube solids via boron induced nanojunctions

    Daniel P. Hashim;Narayanan T. Narayanan;Jose M. Romo-Herrera;David A. Cullen

  • Engineered Graphite Oxide Materials for Application in Water Purification

    Wei Gao;Mainak Majumder;Lawrence B. Alemany;Tharangattu N. Narayanan

  • Marine corrosion protective coatings of hexagonal boron nitride thin films on stainless steel.

    Esam Husain;Tharangattu N. Narayanan;Jose Jaime Taha-Tijerina;Soumya Vinod

  • Electrically insulating thermal nano-oils using 2D fillers.

    Jaime Taha-Tijerina;Tharangattu N. Narayanan;Guanhui Gao;Guanhui Gao;Matthew Rohde

  • Artificially stacked atomic layers: toward new van der Waals solids

    Guanhui H. Gao;Wei Gao;E. Cannuccia;Jaime Taha-Tijerina

  • Binary and Ternary Atomic Layers Built from Carbon, Boron, and Nitrogen

    Li Song;Zheng Liu;Arava Leela Mohana Reddy;Narayanan Tharangattu Narayanan

  • Covalently Interconnected Three-Dimensional Graphene Oxide Solids

    Parambath M. Sudeep;Parambath M. Sudeep;Tharangattu N. Narayanan;Aswathi Ganesan;Manikoth M. Shaijumon

  • Synthesis of N, F and S co-doped graphene quantum dots

    Sumana Kundu;Sumana Kundu;Sumana Kundu;Ram Manohar Yadav;T. N. Narayanan;Manjusha V. Shelke;Manjusha V. Shelke;Manjusha V. Shelke

  • Functionalized Multilayered Graphene Platform for Urea Sensor

    Rajesh K. Srivastava;Rajesh K. Srivastava;Saurabh Srivastava;Saurabh Srivastava;Tharangattu N. Narayanan;Bansi D. Mahlotra;Bansi D. Mahlotra;Bansi D. Mahlotra

  • On the large capacitance of nitrogen doped graphene derived by a facile route

    M. Praveen Kumar;T. Kesavan;Golap Kalita;P. Ragupathy

  • Collagen based magnetic nanocomposites for oil removal applications

    Palanisamy Thanikaivelan;Palanisamy Thanikaivelan;Narayanan T. Narayanan;Bhabendra K. Pradhan;Pulickel M. Ajayan

  • Carbon Nanotube―Nanocup Hybrid Structures for High Power Supercapacitor Applications

    Myung Gwan Hahm;Myung Gwan Hahm;Arava Leela Mohana Reddy;Daniel P. Cole;Monica Rivera

  • Fluorinated graphene oxide; a new multimodal material for biological applications.

    Rebeca Romero-Aburto;Rebeca Romero-Aburto;Tharangattu. N. Narayanan;Tharangattu. N. Narayanan;Yutaka Nagaoka;Takashi Hasumura

  • Graphene–protein field effect biosensors: glucose sensing ☆

    Sowmya Viswanathan;Tharangattu N. Narayanan;Kiana Aran;Kathryn D. Fink

  • Hexagonal Boron Nitride and Graphite Oxide Reinforced Multifunctional Porous Cement Composites

    Mohammad A. Rafiee;Tharangattu N. Narayanan;Daniel P. Hashim;Navid Sakhavand

  • Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Activity of Graphene–MoS2 van der Waals Heterostructures

    Ravi K. Biroju;Deya Das;Rahul Sharma;Shubhadeep Pal

  • Solar light driven photoelectrocatalytic hydrogen evolution and dye degradation by metal-free few-layer MoS2 nanoflower/TiO2(B) nanobelts heterostructure

    Kamal Kumar Paul;N. Sreekanth;Ravi K. Biroju;Tharangattu N. Narayanan

  • Bifunctional Electrocatalytic Activity of Boron‐Doped Graphene Derived from Boron Carbide

    Thazhe Veettil Vineesh;M. Praveen Kumar;Chisato Takahashi;Golap Kalita

  • Optical Power Limiting in Fluorinated Graphene Oxide: An Insight into the Nonlinear Optical Properties

    Panit Chantharasupawong;Reji Philip;Narayanan T. Narayanan;Parambath M. Sudeep

Frequent Co-Authors

Pulickel M. Ajayan
Pulickel M. Ajayan Rice University
M. R. Anantharaman
M. R. Anantharaman Cochin University of Science and Technology
Robert Vajtai
Robert Vajtai Rice University
Bipin Kumar Gupta
Bipin Kumar Gupta Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
Chandra Sekhar Tiwary
Chandra Sekhar Tiwary Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Subbiah Alwarappan
Subbiah Alwarappan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
Manikoth M. Shaijumon
Manikoth M. Shaijumon Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram
Dorian Liepmann
Dorian Liepmann University of California, Berkeley
P. A. Joy
P. A. Joy Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
Angel Rubio
Angel Rubio Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter

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